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20 Dec 2015

my week #192

Finally! Christmas holidays are here which means a two week break after the biggest term ever. I guess they are just prepping us for working life...

This was my third week on paediatrics and actually, it's not as bad as I thought it would be. I have come across a few harrowing cases already and they have been quite heartbreaking. Overall, I'm enjoying this placement, especially when in the Emergency Department as quite often, it means seeing patients first, clerking them in and examining before presenting to a doctor. This has been invaluable for my learning and it also directly benefits the patients too because it speeds up their stay in triage.

With less than a week to go until Christmas, I've been writing plenty of lists of things to do (food-related, life-admin related and just social-life related!) and am questioning if I have time to fit everything in. First world problems and all that...